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Date:      Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:35:50 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Sean Welch <Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Slow portupgrade in 5.3-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20041123183550.GA18732@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20041123182816.GA4980@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net>
References:  <20041123182816.GA4980@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net>

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On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 12:28:16PM -0600, Sean Welch wrote:
> I just compiled portupgrade from an updated ports system 3 days ago.
> I've noticed that the program is inordinately slow during the db
> update phase where it displays the following:
>=20
> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..
>=20
> By "inordinate" I mean it takes 15 to 20 minutes to complete.  This is
> definitely not the case under any other revision of FreeBSD I've ever
> tried to use it on...
>=20
> Is anyone else seeing this?  Any suggestions as to what the problem
> might be?  It seems to be spending all this time constructing INDEX
> files under a subdirectory up in /tmp -- and doing it SLOWLY.

Read /usr/ports/UPDATING.  We no longer store an instantly outdated
INDEX in the repository.

-- Brooks

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